Scarf-anchor



(No Model.)

L. H. WILSON.

SGARF ANCHOR. No. 333,187. Patented Dec. 29, 1885.

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v UNITED STATES LEE H. WILSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SCARF-ANCHOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 333,187, dated December 29, 1885.

Application filed September 14, 1885. Serial No. 177,004. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEE H. WILsoN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scarf-Anchors, of which the following is adescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of a shirt and collar having a scarf attached thereto in the usual way, a portion of the shirt-front being broken away, showing the bosom in section and a side view of said scarf-anchor as applied when in use. Fig. 2 is a side view of said anchor detached. Fig. 3 is a modification thereof. Fig. 4 is a still further modification, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view of a portion of one end, showing the manner of attaching the hook.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

The object of myinvention is to provide an anchor or holder especially designed for attachment to neck-scarfs, and for the retention of the same in position when properly adjusted, all of which is hereinafter more particularly described, and definitely pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, A represents a shirt provided with a collar, a, around which is adjusted in any well-known way a scarf, B. In order to prevent said scarf from becoming disarranged and displaced from its proper adjustment, as shown, I provide an elastic anchor, 0, consisting of a spiral spring, as clearly shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 8 of the drawings, provided at its respective ends with hooks 0 c or any equivalent device, whereby said elastic connection may be readily attached to ascarf and to the shirt-front, or to any other portion of the clothing, as desired, in such a manner as to cause a downward tension and prevent said scarf from working upwardly, as it usually tends to do. In constructing said anchor I prefer to solder or otherwise attach the end of the spiral to the hooks c c, as at 0 leaving an extended shank, 0 Fig. 5, extending within the spiral to form a handle for use in adjusting said hook. The hook c is preferably made small and somewhat blunt, in order that it may be hooked into the eyelet of the shirt-front, as at a, Fig. 1, while the hook 0 may be made longer and sharper. Fig. 3 shows a modification of said construction, in which the usual spiral wire, 0 as ordinarily attached to shirt-studs, is swiveled or linked to the lower end of the part 0; or the hook a may first be connected with the eyelet in the shirt-bosom,when after slightly stretching the part 0 the opposite end is hooked, as clearly shown in Fig. l, to the back or under side of the scarf, Where it is entirely hidden from sight, and retains the scarf in place with a continuous elastic ten- $1011.

I am aware that ascarf attachment has been made consisting of a rubber loop attached to a metal plate provided with hooks for connecting the same with the scarf and a shirt or other button, and I do not, therefore, claim the special features of this construction. Neither do I claim a coiled spring wire with end clasps or fastenings, nor the construction described in Patent No. 305,029, dated September 9, 1884:; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a scarf-anchor consisting of the combination of the spiral spring 0 with the hooks c c, the points of which are bent in opposite directions radially to its aXis,whereby the one may be hooked to the scarf upon one of its sides, and the other to the garment upon its reverse side, substantially as described.

LEE H. WILSON. Witnesses:

D. H. FLETCHER, J. B. HALPENNY. 

